Association between cigarette smoking, white blood cell count, and metabolic syndrome as defined by the Japanese criteria

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1167-1172

  Ishizaka, Nobukazu ^a   Ishizaka, Yuko ^b   Toda, Ei Ichi ^b   Nagai, Ryozo ^a   Yamakado, Minoru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MITSUI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Metabolic syndrome; Risk stratification; White blood cell count

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 34548065479     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0136     Document Type: Article

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